Monday, January 02, 2012

Explosions in the sky

Vendors around Sweden sold fireworks worth something like 250 million SEK this last week. And the fireworks were all used during the New Years Eve celebrations. That's around 26 SEK per person in the country (there's 9 600 000 of us, give or take). The population in Tungelsta is around 5000, which means that I watched 130 000 SEK exploding in the night sky during the ten minutes that I stood on the stairs at home taking photos of the spectacle. It looked like much more. Happy New Year everyone!

Private use of fireworks is totally banned here in Perth Steffe and for good reason, only a day or so ago someone here died because of mishandling of a very big firework, where he got it from is a mystery. Also because if our extremely hot windy weather the risk of fire is too high.. But after all that this is a fabulous shot.

Agree -- these fireworks photos are the best! We had no fireworks but it sounded as if a canon was blasting from Garazers (the Latvian camp by us). Michigan has just legalized fireworks so I too now worry about the maniacs

Thats a lot of fireworks Steffe! I like this picture, nicely captured.Thanks for your visits and comments to my Leeds in Yorkshire daily photo blog. Have a great 2012 and I look forward to the pictures you will show us.